Blooming hot!

This weekend has been particularly hot for May and it is not supposed to get cooler in this part of the country until Wednesday. The heat has all but finished off the wallflowers and they are now looking very tired so when it does cool down, I will have to dig them out.
Along the fence and trellis on both sides of the garden I planted several climbing roses a few years ago. They haven't really been pruned properly for a couple of years because working full time and having a few health problems meant they didn't get done. Now that I am retired I am hoping to rectify this from the autumn but until then I am letting them 'do their own thing'.
Last week there were quite a few buds on some of them but over the weekend some of these buds have opened into full blown blooms with the heat and sunshine.
Going up the left hand side of the garden I have Gertude Jekyll, one of my absolute favourites. She is just beginning to open her sugar pink blooms and the perfume is exquisite. Next to her is Mme. Alfred Carriere, a 'rescue rose' from Focus garden centre who is still rather weakly and didn't flower at all last year but has one creamy white bloom opening and quite a few more to come. Then there is Ena Harkness who opened several of her beautiful crimson flowers yesterday and today. The last one on this side of the garden is Lilac Moon and she also has blooms opening and she too has more than last year. Facing the house across the top of the garden is a rose called Danse du Feu which has not done too well over the last couple of years but is now sporting a bright scarlet flower and a lot of fat buds.
Coming down the other side, Arthur Bell, a yellow rose that grows about ten feet straight up has actually got a flower lower down and joining him in a race to get as far over the top of the fence is William Morris who has heavy clusters of peachy flowers but is still in tight bud at the moment. Then there is Juliana, a salmon pink rose also in tight bud and trying to grow as tall as all the others on this side of the garden. Then we come to Compassion who has a pinky flesh coloured flower, but is not yet in flower although she has plenty of buds and finally there is Casino, another yellow rose who is also in bud.
It's strange how those on the right hand side of the garden seem to want to grow bolt upright as high as they can (or as high as I let them) and they all flower later. However, there are a couple of clematis flowering in amongst them and at least they all have buds so I can look forward to a display in a few weeks time.